El Banjo, Not El Bano.

Bored again.  A particular Hammond organ parts store on the internet sent me the wrong resistors for my Leslie 122 amp.  Needless to say after I spent the time soldering them in, the fuse blew, and that was it.  No more Leslie 122, at least for the moment.  The most logical train of thought is to think you did something wrong.  Is a resistor polarized?  I tried it the opposite way, and nothing happened.  Turns out the parts guy mistook 470 ohms for 470K ohms.  Not the same thing, so they are sending the correct resistors.  I hope no damage was done to my amplifier, seeing as there really was nothing wrong with it to begin with.  I reckon it will at least get it back up and running.  Frustrating.  I can't play my organ, one of them anyway, the one that uses the Leslie 142.  This is my prized instrument, one I have spent a fair amount of time working on.  It's all cool.  It will work out, but I must be patient.  LeJoy, the Trump appointed Postmaster General, is slowing down the mail on purpose.  My solder pump came to Fayetteville, went to G-bury, and came back again.  It should have been delivered days ago.  DeJoy.  Not, "Oh, Joy."  Another Trump crony making things worse for all Americans.  It commonly is stated that jazz came from ragtime.  Most American only know Scott Joplin.  I'm one of them.  If W.C. Handy is the self proclaimed "Father of the Blues," then Scott Joplin would be the "Father of Ragtime."  It is easiest.  If Maple Leaf Rag was published in 1897, then isn't is easiest to say that is when it began?  I disagree.  I disagree the same way America says Bill Monroe invented Bluegrass.  He didn't.  He may have been crucial in its development over recent years, but he alone did not create Bluegrass the genre.  More accurately the traditionally known instrumentation of Bluegrass, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and double bass was codified in Bill Monroe's bands.  He also sang in this really high, piercing, nasal voice.  Earl Scruggs banjo picking style also was an important part of this sound, but they decided to leave the Monroe band and embark on their own music tour.  As for the banjo, an African instrument that was brought to America by the slaves, it was influenced by the lute.  They had lutes in Africa.  The most notable thing about the banjo is other than it being a drum on a stick is it has a drone string.  This string is on the top of the neck, and it is higher in pitch than the other played strings.  If one uses the thumb and two fingers pick style, the thumb is what is responsible for plucking this higher pitched drone string.  I didn't know this.  It sounds like another player, and thus the incredible power of the sound of the banjo.  When one hears this picking style on the banjo, easily it is able to understand its influence in ragtime music played on the piano.  It is the same thing, arpeggiated figures of a major chord surrounding a melody to embellish it.  Cool.  Ragtime comes from slaves playing popular tunes of the day from their Scot Irish plantation masters on fiddle and banjo.  I am guessing this is whence swing came.  African polyrhythm from tribal drumming could be a factor, but that was a continent away.  I guess I am going to have to get me a banjo.